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Gary Soto Victor's 'Seventh Grade'
In the story “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto Victor had many embarrassing moments that he learned from during his first day of seventh grade. For example , in the text it stated that Victor’s English teacher asked him to provide a noun his response was “Teresa.” (para 24)This was embarrassing, since some of the girls giggled because they knew that Victor had a crush on Teresa. This is when Victor should have learned to think before you reply and not to blurt out the first thing that comes to mind he was just focused on Teresa not noticing what was happening around him. Another, embarrassing moment Victor had was when he pretended he knew french however,when Mr.Bueller(his French teacher) started speaking to Victor in French he did
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